Wednesday, January 30, 2013

"In the text Towards a Definition of Project Art one can
possibly locate where Kinmont’s aesthetic-ethical concerns
line-up specifically with contemporary critical discourse
about the social practices of art. Pablo Helguera proposes in his lecture/book, Education for Socially Engaged Art, that
one of the central questions for the socially engaged artist
is whether (and why) they should venture into the complex
disciplines of education, anthropology, and social service.
In Kinmont’s work, art can model the kinds of practices
and behaviors that one would otherwise want from a larger
sociopolitical and economic sphere. Art can also present a
kind of micro-politics—a space where aesthetic decisions
can undergird and affirm political or social ones."Click here to download PDF